This Self is nearer than all else

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>

> The Self as Spirit

>

> Vedanta accepts this logical introduction to the enquiry into the

> self. Self as subject should never be confused with any object.

> Anything that the self observes cannot be self. Can anything

> positive then be said of it? The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad has a

> great deal to say about the self. For example:

>

> `This Self is nearer than all else, dearer than son, dearer than

> wealth, dearer than anything. If a man call anything dearer than

> Self, say that he will lose what is dear, of certainty he will lose

> it; for Self is God. Therefore one should worship Self as Love. Who

> worships Self his love shall never perish … This Self is the Lord of

> all beings; as spokes are knit together in the hub, all things, all

> gods, all men, all lives, are bodies, are knit together in that Self. "

>

> (p. 121, 135)

>

 

Believing it to be an error, i double-checked " nearer than all else "

because it could also have meant " dearer than all else, dearer than

son, dearer than wealth, dearer than anything " . But it is indeed

" nearer than all else " .

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i have not finished this but it was prematurely approved by one of

the moderators. - jagbir.

 

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

>

> >

> > The Self as Spirit

> >

> > Vedanta accepts this logical introduction to the enquiry into the

> > self. Self as subject should never be confused with any object.

> > Anything that the self observes cannot be self. Can anything

> > positive then be said of it? The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad has a

> > great deal to say about the self. For example:

> >

> > `This Self is nearer than all else, dearer than son, dearer than

> > wealth, dearer than anything. If a man call anything dearer than

> > Self, say that he will lose what is dear, of certainty he will

lose

> > it; for Self is God. Therefore one should worship Self as Love.

Who

> > worships Self his love shall never perish … This Self is the Lord

of

> > all beings; as spokes are knit together in the hub, all things,

all

> > gods, all men, all lives, are bodies, are knit together in that

Self. "

> >

> > (p. 121, 135)

> >

 

>

> Believing it to be an error, i double-checked " nearer than all

> else " because it could also have meant " dearer than all else,

> dearer than son, dearer than wealth, dearer than anything " . But it

> is indeed " nearer than all else " .

>